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it·er·ate

(ĭt′ə-rāt′)

tr.v. it·er·at·ed, it·er·at·ing, it·er·ates

To say or perform again; repeat. See Synonyms at repeat.

[Latin iterāre, iterāt-, from iterum, again; see i- in Indo-European roots.]

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iterate

(ˈɪtəˌreɪt)

(tr) to say or do again; repeat

[C16: from Latin iterāre, from iterum again]

ˈiterant adj

ˌiterˈation, ˈiterance n

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it•er•ate

(ˈɪt əˌreɪt)

v.t. -at•ed, -at•ing.

1. to utter again or repeatedly.

2. to do (something) over again or repeatedly.

[1525–35; < Latin iterāre to repeat, derivative of iterum again]

it′er•ance, n.

iterate

Past participle: iterated
Gerund: iterating

Imperative
iterate
iterate

Present
I iterate
you iterate
he/she/it iterates
we iterate
you iterate
they iterate

Preterite
I iterated
you iterated
he/she/it iterated
we iterated
you iterated
they iterated

Present Continuous
I am iterating
you are iterating
he/she/it is iterating
we are iterating
you are iterating
they are iterating

Present Perfect
I have iterated
you have iterated
he/she/it has iterated
we have iterated
you have iterated
they have iterated

Past Continuous
I was iterating
you were iterating
he/she/it was iterating
we were iterating
you were iterating
they were iterating

Past Perfect
I had iterated
you had iterated
he/she/it had iterated
we had iterated
you had iterated
they had iterated

Future
I will iterate
you will iterate
he/she/it will iterate
we will iterate
you will iterate
they will iterate

Future Perfect
I will have iterated
you will have iterated
he/she/it will have iterated
we will have iterated
you will have iterated
they will have iterated

Future Continuous
I will be iterating
you will be iterating
he/she/it will be iterating
we will be iterating
you will be iterating
they will be iterating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been iterating
you have been iterating
he/she/it has been iterating
we have been iterating
you have been iterating
they have been iterating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been iterating
you will have been iterating
he/she/it will have been iterating
we will have been iterating
you will have been iterating
they will have been iterating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been iterating
you had been iterating
he/she/it had been iterating
we had been iterating
you had been iterating
they had been iterating

Conditional
I would iterate
you would iterate
he/she/it would iterate
we would iterate
you would iterate
they would iterate

Past Conditional
I would have iterated
you would have iterated
he/she/it would have iterated
we would have iterated
you would have iterated
they would have iterated

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Verb	1.	iterate - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" ingeminate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell tell - let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late" perseverate - psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus; "The subjects in this study perseverated" ditto - repeat an action or statement; "The next speaker dittoed her argument" harp, dwell - come back to; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" translate, interpret, render - restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N." paraphrase, rephrase, reword - express the same message in different words sum up, summarize, summarise, resume - give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" quote, cite - repeat a passage from; "He quoted the Bible to her"
	2.	iterate - run or be performed again; "the function iterates" math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures recur, repeat - happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story"

iterate

verb

To state again:

reiterate, repeat, restate.

Translations

iterierenwiederholen

iterate

vt (form) → wiederholen

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iterate

[ˈɪtəˌreɪt] vt (frm) → iterare

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But there is no such gain of time, as to iterate often the state of the question; for it chaseth away many a frivolous speech, as it is coming forth.

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I must iterate that I had this thought in the midst of my dreaming, and I take it as an evidence of the merging of my two personalities, as evidence of a point of contact between the two disassociated parts of me.

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Joan and David--partners," Tudor began to iterate and reiterate in a malicious and scornful chant.

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Earth trembl'd from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan, Skie lowr'd, and muttering Thunder, som sad drops Wept at compleating of the mortal Sin Original; while ADAM took no thought, Eating his fill, nor EVE to iterate Her former trespass fear'd, the more to soothe Him with her lov'd societie, that now As with new Wine intoxicated both They swim in mirth, and fansie that they feel Divinitie within them breeding wings Wherewith to scorn the Earth: but that false Fruit Farr other operation first displaid, Carnal desire enflaming, hee on EVE Began to cast lascivious Eyes, she him As wantonly repaid; in Lust they burne: Till ADAM thus 'gan EVE to dalliance move.

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Fitbit will continue to test and iterate on Rewards and other software experiences in advance of launching a paid premium service offering later in the year."

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"Ultimately, containers and Kubernetes are just details on the road to helping teams build, iterate and maintain with maximum agility.

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The partnership will provide companies building conversational products (chatbots) on the Recime platform with the ability to track performance and iterate their bots by leveraging Dashbot's advanced conversational analytics.

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According to Resonetics, Aduro has established an innovative business model and proprietary technology to shorten lead times dramatically, enabling customers to iterate rapidly and reduce time to market.

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Instead, they are now focusing on building a library of games, a community and the ability "to iterate with the hardware" which they're making a pretty big bet on with Project Scorpio.

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The jth FOM iterate for the linear system (1.1) is then given by

Any finite convergence curve is possible in the initial iterations of restarted FOM

Equipped with funds from the accelerator of $25,000 they started to iterate quickly, first prototyping the printed circuit boards (PCPs) that are in Roadie, then the plastic mold.